Faster Quotes - Page 27

• It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

  Socrates

  Death, Running, Wickedness

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• He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a tangent in a random direction, which he was now trying to identify and correct for.

  Douglas Adams

  Trying, Usual, Velocity

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Instead, over the past thirty years, in the world of action and adventure sports, in situations where asses really were on the line, the bounds of the possible have been pushed further and faster than ever before in history. We've seen near-exponential growth in ultimate human performance, which is both hyperbolic paradox and considerable mystery. Somehow, a generation's worth of iconoclastic misfits have rewritten the rules of the feasible, not just raising the bar but often obliterating it altogether. And this brings up one final question: Where-if anywhere-do our actual limits lie?

  Steven Kotler

  Sports, Lying, Adventure

  Steven Kotler (2014). “The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.

  George Gilder

  Three, Computer, Programming

  George Gilder (2000). “Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Programming, Software, Hardware

  "Excel HSC Softw Design&Devel + Cards SG". Book by Geoff Lancaster, 2001.

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• In a way, Che Guevara's fate was far worse than Simon Bolivar's. Guevara's collapse was complete: his intentions were forgotten, but his style was taken up by boutique owners (one of the fanciest clothes stores in London is called Che Guevara). There is no faster way of destroying a man or mocking his ideas than making him fashionable. That Che succeeded in influencing dress-designers was part of his tragedy.

  Paul Theroux

  Taken, Fate, Men

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• You cannot make your life move faster than it's moving. No matter how urgent your situation may seem to be, things are going to happen when they happen, not a minute sooner. Be patient with yourself. Be patient with others. Be patient with life. Patience always pays off.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Moving, May, Pay

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Nov 06, 2015

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• Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.

  Harrison Ford

  Inspirational, Cutting, Woods

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• Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

  Ann Patchett

  Skills, Two, Giving

  "Ashton Kutcher’s ‘Raj’ Ad: Where Do We Draw the Line?" by Eleni Gage, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2012.

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• All things being equal, the primary competitive advantage of your business will be your ability to grow Leaders Without Titles faster than your industry peers.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Leader, Peers

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• Time is a topological manifold. It is a surface. Events flow across it like water over land and like water flowing over land, when the land is flat, the water becomes reflective and moves slowly. When the landscape becomes disrupted, the water moves faster and chaotic attractors appear and new kinds of activity emerge and out of that new activity, there comes the new states that define the future.

  Terence McKenna

  Moving, Land, Water

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• If we took away barriers to women's leadership, we would solve the climate change problem a lot faster

  Mary Robinson

  Leadership, Women, Climate

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• I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.

  Albert Einstein

  Sad, Believe, Men

  letter to Dr. Otto Fullisburger, cited in: Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, p. 75, 2004.

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• The majority of people consider their work a means to an end. People who work for money only come to the end faster than people who are involved in their life’s purpose every day.

  Denis Waitley

  Mean, People, Purpose

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• Is climbing, as a passion and as a sport, better off now than it was in the past? We can do harder climbs now in faster times - techniques are more refined and equipement more sophisticated - but are we really any better off?

  Yvon Chouinard

  Sports, Passion, Past

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• I set my own rhythm, and I do believe it was usually a little faster than most other people's.

  Ray Charles

  People, Littles, Rhythm

  "Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story".

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• As an entrepreneur, if you're the originator, you need to be faster than ever.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Inspirational, Entrepreneur, Needs

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• We need to make everyone more aware of the benefits of empowering women. Then I think we can succeed faster. Because it's one thing to achieve success, and another to repeat success. That's the job of a leader. Promoting women leadership and creating a more level playing field is a huge enabler to repeat success.

  Muhtar Kent

  Jobs, Thinking, Creating

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• If a program of physical activity isn't designed to get you stronger or faster or better conditioned by producing a specific stress to which a specific desirable adaptation can occur, you don't get to call it training. It's just exercise.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Stress, Exercise, Training

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• For me, running is about freedom. I find that the freer I feel, the faster I am.

  Jennifer Beals

  Sports, Running, Freedom

  Runner's World magazine, June 2009.

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• Some of us are going to play faster than others. Hitting the right notes and getting your technique right is so much more important than speed.

  Joe Satriani

  Play, Important, Technique

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you thought they could.

  Lawrence Summers

  Thinking, Things In Life, Thumbs

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• It doesn't get any easier; you just get faster.

  Greg LeMond

  Easier

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• The ship anchored in the harbor rots faster than the ship crossing the ocean; a still pool of water stagnates more rapidly than a running stream.

  Brownie Wise

  Running, Ocean, Water

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• I know all we're doing is travelling without moving. Speed freak faster than a speedin' bullet, slow down. If I don't, I might just lose it, locked up. You've got me honey, locked up under heavy brakin', yeah. You know I've got to hang on, drive too fast, I might be last.

  Jay Kay

  Travel, Moving, Might

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